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A way to do that is with a combination of LAStools and GIS manipulation. However, creating such algorithms is not an easy task and requires some experience. Reading into academic papers might be a good way to start!

Why would you not want to use the global shift and scale? I think it might improve the speed during operation and I don't see any negative effects?

Well, luckily someone fixed the bug ;). The latest 2.10.alpha version has been updated. I'm having a similar bug when loading LAZ-files and it wasn't fixed with that alpha version. I think it might be caused by a recent update in our software. If I take the LAZ file and copy it with las2las, I can ...

Quick and dirty way would be the following: First manually find the average Z offset between the reference and aerial point cloud. You could do this by measuring the Delta_Z between the two clouds at different representative points with the 'Point picking' tool. If you can determine a solid average ...

Hello everybody, For a project I need to manually click lots of points in a point cloud. With these points I need to do some analysis which I plan to calculate in an Excel sheet. For practical reasons, it would be very helpful if the point list would be in some kind of matrix format (ready for analy...